Table 4.
Type of discharge or death after hospital stay for rectal cancer surgery and further planned treatment depending on BMI (kg/m2)
| Valid, n | Mean, % | BMI, kg/m2 |
p-value | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <18.5 |
18.5–24.9 |
≥25.0 |
≥30.0 |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| Discharge | 9,918 | 93.9 | 184 | 86.8 | 3,521 | 93.4 | 3,796 | 94.6 | 1,813 | 94.2 | <0.001 |
| Transfer | 9,918 | 3.0 | 18 | 8.5 | 118 | 3.1 | 108 | 2.7 | 53 | 2.8 | <0.001 |
| Death | 9,918 | 3.1 | 10 | 4.7 | 129 | 3.4 | 110 | 2.7 | 58 | 3.0 | 0.176 |
| Planned further treatment | |||||||||||
| Adjuvant RCTx | 9,920 | 13.2 | 22 | 10.4 | 464 | 12.3 | 564 | 14.1 | 264 | 13.7 | 0.070 |
| Adjuvant CTx | 9,920 | 29.8 | 49 | 23.1 | 1,108 | 29.4 | 1,201 | 29.9 | 597 | 31.0 | 0.100 |
| Palliative CTx | 9,920 | 12.9 | 38 | 17.9 | 551 | 14.6 | 470 | 11.7 | 216 | 11.2 | <0.001 |
| Palliative RTx | 9,920 | 2.2 | 7 | 3.3 | 104 | 2.8 | 64 | 1.6 | 41 | 2.1 | 0.003 |
CTx = Chemotherapy; RTx = radiotherapy; RCTx = radiochemotherapy.